Not that Lamestream media is really interested:
After a week of being attacked for shady bookkeeping and questionable expenditures, the Clinton Foundation is fighting back. In a tweet posted last week, the Clinton Foundation claimed that 88 percent of its expenditures went “directly to [the foundation’s] life-changing work.”
There’s only one problem: that claim is demonstrably false. And it is false not according to some partisan spin on the numbers, but because the organization’s own tax filings contradict the claim.
In order for the 88 percent claim to be even remotely close to the truth, the words “directly” and “life-changing” have to mean something other than “directly” and “life-changing.” For example, the Clinton Foundation spent nearly $8.5 million–10 percent of all 2013 expenditures–on travel. Do plane tickets and hotel accommodations directly change lives? Nearly $4.8 million–5.6 percent of all expenditures–was spent on office supplies. Are ink cartridges and staplers “life-changing” commodities?
Those two categories alone comprise over 15 percent of all Clinton Foundation expenses in 2013, and we haven’t even examined other spending categories like employee fringe benefits ($3.7 million), IT costs ($2.1 million), rent ($4 million) or conferences and conventions ($9.2 million). Yet, the tax-exempt organization claimed in its tweet that no more than 12 percent of its expenditures went to these overhead expenses.
How can both claims be true? Easy: they’re not.
Do plane tickets and hotel accommodations directly change lives? … Are ink cartridges and staplers “life-changing” commodities?
I imagine that they are life-changing to the degree that it allows the ticket agents, hotel staff and office supply employees to keep their jobs. After all, that’s $13.3 million. You can hire quite a few people for that kind of money.
Or merely one or two if you are the Federal Government.
And think about how life-changing all those fringe benefits that the Foundation employees get can be. It would be pretty life-changing if they could no longer get them because the Foundation trustees get tossed in jail…
Hey now! Meeting Bill Clinton is a life changing event.
Especially if you’re a woman.
if we ruin the whole foundation scam now what’s food stamp gonna do when he retires?
> now what’s food stamp gonna do when he retires?<
the grifter will find a new scam
Let him find a real job, in the Funemployment Economy he created, while he listens to his successor blame him for the first six years.
He’ll spend the rest of his life doing speaking engagements for ungodly amounts of money.
If by “food stamp” you mean Obama, he’s going to go hang out with the boys at the park and throw the bones while sipping a 40.
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mark levin was wondering about this tonight:
Why is Jeb Bush campaigning in Puerto Rico?
as former g gordon liddy listener, i’d say that the jebster wants to be the first president of the:
North American Union
Puerto Rico is part of the nominating process. Lots of non-states send delegates to the party conventions.
Mark ought to have known that.
>Mark ought to have known that.<
perhaps but it was an momentary aside. i look at the jebster as the gop obama doing his own fundamental transformation by merging the usa with the spanish speaking south. jebster seems creepy on that level.
jeb makes me sick he’s so disgusting
just remember : proggtardia uber alles
Dead Kennedys California Über Alles
Hillary Clinton really ought to be wearing wrestling tights. That would show that the GOP doesn’t understand the nature of the contest.
Which, they don’t.
>That would show that the GOP doesn’t understand the nature of the contest.<
the gop is the jebster. they know what they are doing. a 1 1/2 party state.
Sure would like to know what 2.1 million buys you in IT . That is one hell of a lot for a personal, lost server. Wiping fees/spoliation of evidence costs not applied.
ot hi to dicentra for whatever or i could site havel.
“Non-profit” has got to be the most misleading name ever created. No operation that supports so many people with large salaries can be really seen as unprofitable.
I think “non-productive” is a better term. Even if they do something nice like feed people, they are not producing anything, just re-directing the wealth created by productive people.
+1 to bgbear.
+2.
“Hillary Clinton really ought to be wearing wrestling tights”
Ernst,
Hillary’s pantsuits parade is bad enough now I have that image to deal with.
I thought we were friends ;^)